Warfare

The Taliban has declared victory in Afghanistan as the era of American occupation comes to an end. Channel 4 News talks to a top Taliban commander about his view on western intervention.

Cult movie Back to the Future II sees Marty McFly flung to a future 80s kids could only dream of: the year 2015. So where are all the amazing gadgets the film and other fiction promised us?

A Jordanian jet fighter pilot is taken prisoner by the Islamic State after his plane crashed, but the US dispels claims from the militants they shot it down.

Kurdish peshmerga forces fight back Islamic State militants from Mount Sinjar on the borders of Iraq, Syria and Turkey, freeing hundreds of Yazidis trapped by IS.

Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer has information “that is devastatingly bad” for the George W Bush administration, says Clive Stafford Smith, founder of legal pressure group Reprieve.

Garry Kasparov, one of the greatest chess players in history, says Vladimir Putin is far more dangerous than Islamic State militants because he has nuclear weapons.

When the Islamic State captured hundreds of Iraqi soldiers in June, they were subjected to beatings, torture and execution. Only a handful escaped.

The Syrian regime says two months of US-led strikes have failed to weaken the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Is it right – or are other motives at play?

Former British soldiers are reportedly in northern Syria battling the Islamic State group alongside Kurdish fighters – but who are they? And what happens when they come back?

A father whose two teenage sons died “fighting Bashar al-Assad” defends his third son – who is still in Syria.

Vladimir Putin has said Russia is prepared for a “catastrophic” collapse in oil prices as more European sanctions are threatened over Ukraine.

Elite US soldier Robert O’Neill has been “unmasked” as the man who shot the 9/11 mastermind – but does his desire for recognition threaten the future of special forces?

Paraic O’Brien reports as thousands pay their respects to British servicemen who have died in conflicts since the start of the First World War 100 years ago.

Dozens of Nigerian boys are killed and 79 injured by a suicide bomber dressed as a student at a school assembly.